Course Texts

Readings will be selected from these.

Texts of some thinkers of the Greek Tradition

Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Supplement to On the Soul, R. W. Sharples (trans.). London: Duckworth, 2004.

Themistius forthcoming

Texts of some thinkers of the Arabic Tradition

al-Fārābī forthcoming

Ibn Sīnā / Avicenna forthcoming

Ibn Rushd / Averroes forthcoming

Thomas Aquinas

Except for the Commentary on the Sentences, English translations are available for Marquette students via Marqcat in the Past Masters database. Search “Past Masters.”

(A) Commentary on the Sentences (1252-56/57)

Latin text of the Scriptum super Sententiis, click here and search.

New English draft translations for this course, click here (link forthcoming).

(B) Summa contra gentiles, book 2

Latin texts of the Summa contra gentiles, click here and search.

The best available edition is: S. Thomae Aquinatis, Liber de veritate catholicae fidei contra errores infidelium seu Summa contra Gentiles. Ed. P. Marc, C. Pera, P. Caramello (Taurini-Romae: Marietti, 1961).

English translation available for MU students via Marqcat in the Past Masters database.

Older English translation available online click here.

For the rest of these works, Aquinas knows the Nova translation of Aristotle’s De anima by Moerbeke. (Torrell, v.1, pp. 171-2)

Quaestiones disputatae De anima

Latin texts of the Quaestiones disputatae De anima, click here and search.

The critical edition is: Opera omnia iussu Leonis XIII P. M. edita, t.24/1: Quaestiones disputatae de anima. Ed. B. C. Bazán (Commissio Leonina-Éditions Du Cerf, Roma-Paris, 1996).

English translation: Questions on the Soul, St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. James H. Robb (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1984). This English translation is available at the Marquette Library in several copies and is also available on-line via Marqcat in the “Past Masters” database for Marquette students. Students at KUL and UP should check their library catalogue and reserves.

Sententia Libri De anima

Aquinas probably began his Sentencia libri De sensu et sensato in “Rome before September 1267” but “it was completed in Paris in 1269 (before 1270 in any case, the date of the De unitate intellectus.” Torrell, v. 1, p.173.

Summa theologiae, prima pars, QQ. 75-79

Latin text of the Summa theologiae, click here and search.

English translation by F. Freddoso, click here.

De unitate intellectus contra averroistas (1270)

Latin texts of the De unitate intellectus contra averroistas, click here and search.

On the unity of the intellect against the Averroists (De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas) Trans. Beatrice H. Zedler (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1968). This English translation is available for MU students via Marqcat in the Past Masters database. A more recent translation is: Aquinas Against the Averroists: On There Being Only One Intellect, tr. Ralph McInerny (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1993). Students at KUL and UP should check their library catalogue and reserves.